Children Quote by Wyatt Michael

“The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes.…

— Colum McCann

“They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received…

— Douglas Wilson

“Let's see, what've we got for the little girl to eat? Nothing, I hoped, but he brought a tin of Christmas candies, which seemed…

— Munro Alice

“Awful things, children. Needy, self-centered tyrants, the boys all teeth and firsts, the girls all claws and spit. Gathering into sniveling packs and sniffing…

— Steven Erikson

“...As a child he had gone out for Halloween as a mummy, a vampire, a blue-and-green-swolen drowned boy, all kinds of sufferings and mutilations…

— William T. Vollmann

“I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces,…

— Gillian Flynn

“Anyone who abandon’s their children should be hung, by their toenails while awaiting flesh eating ants or some other painful flesh eating hungry creature…

— A.R. Von

“The children were sent to bed. Some went submissively; others with shrieks and protests as they were dragged away. They had been permitted to…

— Kate Chopin

“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Was this what a family was, how it grew—straight as the children’s teeth? Sure, there was an arm in a sling and over time…

— Adam Johnson

“I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what…

— Edmund Gosse

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister